{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>120. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: We say that in the case of\r\nevery man the sacrifice that is offered partakes of the character\r\nof him who approaches to offer it, or approaches to partake\r\nof it; and that those eat of the sacrifices of such men,\r\nwho in approaching to them partake of the character of those\r\nwho offer them. Therefore, if a bad man offer sacrifice to God,\r\nand a good man receive it at his hands, the sacrifice is to each\r\nman of such character as he himself has shown himself to be,\r\nsince we find it also written that \"unto the pure all things\r\nare pure.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_850_850\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_850_850\">[850]</a> In accordance with this true and catholic judgment,\r\nyou too are free from pollution by the sacrifice of\r\nOptatus, if you disapproved of his deeds. For certainly his\r\nbread was the bread of mourners, seeing that all Africa was\r\nmourning under his iniquities. But the evil involved in the\r\nschism of all your party makes this bread of mourners common\r\nto you all. For, according to the judgment of your Council,\r\nFelicianus of Musti was a shedder of man's blood. For you\r\nsaid, in condemning them,<a id=\"FNanchor_851_851\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_851_851\">[851]</a> \"Their feet are swift to shed\r\nblood.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_852_852\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_852_852\">[852]</a> See therefore what kind of sacrifice he offers whom<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_327\">[Pg 327]</a></span>\r\nyou hold to be a priest, when you have yourselves convicted\r\nhim of sacrilege. And if you think that this is in no way to\r\nyour prejudice, I would ask you how the emptiness of your\r\ncalumnies can be to the prejudice of the whole world?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-549"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"47102bb6c41e9bf191236917acd8b59578c1043b9ed372af98d0c6b3296f659c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xiv. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_852_852","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_852_852","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_852_852\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_852_852\"><span class=\"label\">[852]</span></a> Ps. xiv. 3, from the LXX.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_852_852","text_sha256":"34dee65666388275ed3ea6a1c9d04454f988fa8da9676ea5bcbcc8543a7e91ab","verified":false,"work_id":null}